Innovative container + office space offer at Affinity House

The new owners of Affinity House business centre in Dundee’s Dryburgh Industrial Estate have put together an innovative business space offer ideal for start-ups looking to rent office and storage space in the city.

Calsum Property Ltd, which bought the business centre in March, is currently offering firms a dedicated desk with pedestal-style office drawer storage unit and space in a cupboard plus a 20ft by 8ft steel storage container outside in the centre’s goods yard for £250 + VAT per month.

The package also comes with free unlimited access to the centre’s on-site gym, tea and coffee-making facilities, 40-space car park with seven EV charging points and superfast wifi, plus 50% discount on meeting room hire at the centre and use of the centre’s friendly full-time reception staff for greeting clients or visitors and receiving deliveries on behalf of the tenant.

For comparison, they’re asking £150 + VAT a month for a ‘fixed’ desk on its own and £100 + VAT a month for a ‘hot’ desk. These and other office options can be viewed here.

Ideal for start-ups

Calsum director Andrew Renwick, who’s also Managing Director of Caltech Lifts which part-financed the £1m acquisition and has just moved into the largest office in the centre, explained: “We put the offer together as nobody else in Dundee seems to be offering this package - which would be great for small new start-ups who may have one member of staff but also need some storage for equipment. The 20ft by 8ft steel container is ideal for them.

“Once their business has grown and needs more dedicated space, we have a wide range of office units they could move into as well as more business storage options.

“This offer is open until all the available fixed desks or containers are gone. Anyone interested, should email reception@affinitybusinesscentre.co.uk or call 01382 250150.”

Affinity House

Affinity House is a thriving two-storey 2,000 square-metre modern flexible workspace with two warehouses totalling 666 square-metres, a store, a 40-space car park with seven EV charging points and a 0.4-acre service yard with a 5kW wind turbine.

The business centre features 29 high-quality furnished and unfurnished offices of various sizes, three meeting rooms including a boardroom, two training rooms and a mixture of fixed and ‘hot’ desks.

Its 15 tenants include firms from a range of sectors including homecare, subsea engineering, legal, communications networks and marketing who enjoy the benefit of the centre’s friendly full-time reception staff for greeting clients or visitors and receiving deliveries.  

For details, go to its website at calsumproperty.co.uk